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Interactive Classroom Explorer Stranmillis March 2006 Colin Harrison Daniel Pead Mary Bailey [email protected]. Introduction: representation, teacher learning and video. ‘Almost all forms of learning involve information that is represented in different forms’ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Interactive Classroom Explorer
Stranmillis
March 2006
Colin Harrison
Daniel Pead
Mary Bailey
Introduction: representation, teacher learning and video
• ‘Almost all forms of learning involve information that is represented in different forms’
(van Someren et al, 1998).
Digital video for teachers: what problems can it solve?
Digital video for teachers: what problems can it solve?
Teachers Network.com:
• … a shortage of teachers nationwide, • educators are entering school this fall with little or no hands-on classroom experience. • Overcrowded classes, • pressure to “teach to tests,” • a more diversified student population • added stress on this new crop of teachers….
Digital video for teachers: what problems can it solve?
Teachers Network.com:
• Guidance in the form of professional development, via the Internet, is now available, • an archive of wisdom and best practices •from some of the greatest teachers on the front lines• a series of interactive streaming videos, which offers practical instruction for the novice teacher, and serves as a form of “digital mentoring.”
Digital video for teachers: what problems can it solve?
Teachers Network.com:
• But
good resources good professional development
Vertical authority structure:Content Provider
Classroom Video
Printed support material
Users
ITT StudentsIn-service Teachers
Tutors
Improved teaching Higher standards
CD /VCR paper
outcomes
Traditional video for CPD
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)
Discussion Forum Discussion Forum
Content Provider
Classroom Video
Transcript/Timeline
Assignment/
Introduction
ICE users
Discussion Forum
Comments
Video selections
ITT Students
In-service Teachers
Tutors
CD or Internet
New content
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)- paint 2003
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)- screenshot
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
Video with control buttons
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
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Scrolling transcript
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
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Search window
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
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Search window ICE can hold and distribute pdf,
video, Word files here
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
Video with control buttons
Scrolling transcript
Search window
Online/OfflineBulletin Board
ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
Video with control buttons
Scrolling transcript
Search window
Online/OfflineBulletin Board
Teacher response
ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
Video with control buttons
Buttons for creating ‘video
quotations’
Scrolling transcript
Search window
Online/OfflineBulletin Board
Teacher response
ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….
Video with control buttons
Buttons for creating ‘video
quotations’
Scrolling transcript
Search window
Online/OfflineBulletin Board
Teacher response
Teacher reply,
including ‘video
quotation’ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)
The ICE user is encouraged not only to consider the merits of the exemplar video (video proposition ‘P’)
-But also to actively consider its opposite, ie to challenge the authority status of the exemplar video (video proposition ‘not-P’)
-And the capability of uploading new material, to be considered alongside that produced by those in authority, adds a whole new dimension (video proposition ‘or possibly Q’)
Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)
Our current hypothesis: learning as association - A tentative propositional calculus based on a set of six relational links between representations:
Boolean [P + Q, P ν Q, P + ¬ Q] ‘P plus Q’Identity [P = Q, P ≠ Q] ‘P is the same as Q’Existential [ P] ‘P is real; this is how it is]Modal [ Δ P, ¬ Δ Q] ‘P is necessary, Q isn’t’Causality [P Q] ‘If P then Q’Truth value (P or <P r Q>) [true or false]
So what did ICE deliver?
Using ICE over the Internet
• ICE did prompt critical reflection on video, though not all teachers were able to upload video quotations
• It was possible to identify P, not-P and perhaps Q statements in the postings
• Teachers found it easier to post their own responses than to comment on those of others
• It’s incredibly difficult to explain how ICE works and what it does via the software only….
Looking ahead….
Key issues for the future:
- Work on scaling up for wider populations- Gain deeper insights into teachers’ internalised representations - Explore teachers’ discourse- Work with a wider range of research partners- Make the software available as freeware
Thanks to:- Gatsby for funding ICE
- Daniel Pead and Mary Sheard
- And the team at Labyrinth Software
Contact: [email protected]